June 22, 2024:
Loud boys on the train. Phones on speaker, shouting over each other, parallel conversations at decibel on opposite sides of the aisle.
"HA!", shouts loud boy number one. That's his mom on the speaker. Middle aged voice, laughter, tenderness.
Loud boy number two, finished with his shouted dialog, sits quietly crushing aluminum cans, seemingly his mass transit pastime.